TABLE OF CONTENTS 



PART I 

 The Teaching of Nature-Study 



Page 



What Nature-Study is ^ 



What Nature-Study Should do for the Child i 



Nature-Study as a Help to Health 2 



What Nature-Study Should do for the Teacher 2 



When and Why the Teacher Should say "I do not know!" 3 



Nature-Study, The EUxir of Youth 4 



Nature-Study as a Help in School Discipline 4 



The Relation of Nature-Study to Science 5 



Nature-Study not for Drill ^ 



The Child not Interested in Nature-Study 6 



When to Give the Lesson 



The Length of the Lesson 7 



The Nature-Study Lesson Always New 7 



Nature-Study and Object Lessens 7 



Nature-Study in the Schoolroom 



Nature-Study and Museum Specimens 



The Lens, Microscope and Field-glass as Helps 9 



Use of Pictures, Charts and Blackboard Drawings 10 



The Use of Scientific Names ^° 



The Story as a Supplement to the Nature-Study Lesson 10 



The Nature-Study Attitude toward Life and Death 1 1 



Should the Nature-Study Teacher Teach How to Destroy Life? I3 



The Field Note-book "3 



The Field Excursion ^^ 



Pets as Nature-Study Subjects ^5 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Language Work 16 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Drawing ^7 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Geography ^8 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with History ^^ 



The Correlation of Nature-Study with Arithmetic ^9 



Gardening and Nature-Study 



Nature-Study and Agriculture 



Nature-Study Clubs 



How to Use this Book 



PART II 

 Animal Life 



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 21 

 22 



I Bird Study 

 Beginning Bird Study in the Primary Grades 25 



Feathers as Clothing 



30 

 Feathers as Ornament 



How Birds Fly ^^ 



Eyes and Ears of Birds 



